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Welcome

My name is Andy Wildenberg, and I'm a Ceiling Support Technician
and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rocky Mountain College
in Billings, MT.

When I'm not professing, I enjoy playing around with a lot of
different things. I am a hacker to the core. Not the kind of
"black hat" people who are looking to break into and/or disrupt
other people's systems, but the a hacker in the classic definition -
somebody who is always looking out for clever and innovative
solutions to hard problems. I try hard to help my students
experience what it means to hack.

My Ph.D. research is in Computer Vision, which basically means teaching a
computer to understand an image, as opposed to Image Processing
which applies algorithms to images without requiring the computer to
understand what the pixels represent. My research was on real-time
tracking in images, which means taking a video stream (from an
overpass, for example) and finding and following objects of interest
(cars, for example, to determine how fast they're going and whether
the drivers are drunk).

Nowadays I play with a lot of other things. I work with several
Biology faculty and CS undergraduate researchers on Bioinformatics,
much of it centered on a DNA construct called a MITE. I do work
doing web-app development, sometimes
with Wordpress and sometimes
without. My credits
include CoalDiver.org,
Plains Justice and
Cognitive Media.

I also play with fractals, photomosaics, robotics and
microcontrollers. You can find links to those pages on
the menu bar.

This webpage is still quite experimental, so please excuse the mess.

You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the
food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other
people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use
a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives
building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a
wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into
the pool of human experience and knowledge. -- Steve Jobs,
Rolling Stone, November 1983.